This ship is at full steam with a great billow of black smoke coming from its twin stacks. (That pretty much uses up my nautical jargon ha ha) You can see several portholes, life rafts and the bridge. You can also see lots of chunks of ice in the water around the ship. I cannot …
How exciting, I knew this hobby would one day lead me to someone I knew! Frequent site commenter Far Side of Fifty and I have been talking. Turns out she knows some of my distant cousins. What a small world. This is the generation where her friend’s ancestors and mine are brothers. This photograph is …
This looks to be some type of a ferry boat, and written on the back was Hong Kong. My best guess is that the photo dates to about the 1940s to 1950s. You can just barely see the shapes of people standing by the rails, but other than that I can’t tell much about the …
This is an enormous pile of lumber. To the left of the photo there is some sort of factory and there is also a large stack of lumber near the trucks. Dominating the scene is this pile of wood. Consider that telephone poles are about 20-25 feet high, so this pile might be on par …
This is a great snapshot of airplane mechanics working in and around the propeller of a small plane. I don’t know much about planes, so I will date this one to the 1960s and leave it at that. :-) UPDATE: Iggy and “the old guys” identified this as a Taylorcraft BC model, which likely predates …
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